From: Matt Haley <matt@...>
Date: 2009-10-07T06:39:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Get current working copy version in subversion/git



On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jean-Michel wrote:

> There is no need for IO.popen:
>
> commit_id, commit_date = `git show --pretty=format:"%H|%ci" --
> quiet`.split('|')

IIRC, I was having trouble using the backticks under Windows and it 
worked well with IO.popen. I may be mistaken though, it's been a while
since I initially wrote that snippet.